EAST AMWELL TWP. — Russell Whitehead doesn’t have to cross Wertsville Road to get his mail any more. The 89-year-old Army veteran of World War II appealed to the county Freeholders recently for help in getting permission to move the box to the side of his driveway.

A neighbor, Frances Gavigan, took up his cause and reported that Ringoes Postmaster Mohammed Kabir inspected the area and agreed a new location would be in order.

“Thanks to the efforts of the Board of Chosen Freeholders and East Amwell Township Committeeman David Wang-Iverson,” the postmaster took action, she reported to the Freeholders at their meeting Nov. 6. The new arrangement has the rural carrier pulling into Whitehead’s driveway to put the mail in the box, then turning around and continuing his route down Wertsville Road.

According to Gavigan, Whitehead was almost hit several times by motorists speeding down Wertsville Road, which runs through farmland and clusters of small residential hamlets and homes that lie very close to the road.

Residents have also been asking the county Engineering Department and Freeholders to consider lowering the speed limits as they have done elsewhere in the county.

At a meeting Oct. 15, county officials noted that without enforcement, lower speed limits do not reduce speeding. East Amwell does not have a local police force, relying on the State Police from the Kingwood station to enforce the limits.

Also at their meeting last week, the Freeholders approved a proclamation honoring the Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey, originally called the Wellness Community, on its 10th anniversary. Lynn Arnold, who founded the group with Nancy Dowd, Eunice Jadlocki and Ann Tidey, was at the meeting to receive the thanks in person.